Two men were killed in sep­a­rate shoot­ings in Pe­nal and Pleas­antville on Wednes­day night, leav­ing fam­i­lies in mourn­ing and po­lice search­ing for gun­men.

In­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions ex­pert Dr An­tho­ny Gon­za­les says the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gov­ern­ment must main­tain a stance of neu­tral­i­ty as ten­sions brew be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela in the wa­ters off T&T, fol­low­ing the de­ploy­ment of a US naval fleet and mil­i­tary as­sets to the re­gion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) Mar­tin pres­i­dent Lum Kin says the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry has iden­ti­fied 80 high-risk schools that will po­ten­tial­ly need po­lice of­fi­cers in the new term.

The Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry is fo­cus­ing on fill­ing va­can­cies prompt­ly, man­ag­ing in­dis­ci­pline in schools and in­creas­ing parental en­gage­ment in the new aca­d­e­m­ic year be­gin­ning in Sep­tem­ber.

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe says the in­de­pen­dent ex­pert pan­el re­view­ing the death of six-year-old Jash­er Fran­cois has been grant­ed a one-week ex­ten­sion to com­plete their re­port.

Mere days af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar called on the man­age­ment of Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) to “sort out the mess” at the air­line, one of the air­line’s top ex­ec­u­tives has been sus­pend­ed.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is di­rect­ing all ques­tions to De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge, on whether or not a re­cent se­nior State board ap­pointee is the at­tor­ney with close ties to the Gov­ern­ment who is al­leged­ly among those mak­ing death threats to him.

Two days af­ter a hor­rif­ic ac­ci­dent claimed the life of Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) bus dri­ver Mun­saf Khan, col­leagues joined his fam­i­ly and friends to give him a glow­ing farewell.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has urged the Gov­ern­ment and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to take im­me­di­ate ac­tion to sup­port dis­placed work­ers across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Ro­man Catholic com­mu­ni­ty is mourn­ing the death of a priest who col­lapsed and died while con­duct­ing Mass yes­ter­day.

Fish­er­men in San Fer­nan­do are call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to rein in Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram, who they ac­cuse of al­low­ing a par­ty boat op­er­a­tor to use the San Fer­nan­do Fish­ing Cen­tre for pri­vate events.

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, Clyde El­der, says the Gov­ern­ment re­mains com­mit­ted to trans­form­ing the wa­ter de­liv­ery ser­vice in To­ba­go.